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- March 2012 (Revised October 2021)
- Supplement
V-Cola: Confidential Instructions for Cash Adman Chief Financial Officer, Chikara Advertising
By: Ian Larkin and Hal Movius
Larkin, Ian, and Hal Movius. "V-Cola: Confidential Instructions for Cash Adman Chief Financial Officer, Chikara Advertising." Harvard Business School Supplement 912-044, March 2012. (Revised October 2021.)
- May 2012
- Article
Incentive Schemes, Sorting and Behavioral Biases of Employees: Experimental Evidence
By: Ian Larkin and Stephen Leider
We investigate how the convexity of a firm's incentives interacts with worker overconfidence to affect sorting decisions and performance. We demonstrate experimentally that overconfident employees are more likely to sort into a non-linear incentive scheme over a linear... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Behavior; Prejudice and Bias; Decisions; Employees; Wages
Larkin, Ian, and Stephen Leider. "Incentive Schemes, Sorting and Behavioral Biases of Employees: Experimental Evidence." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 4, no. 2 (May 2012).
- January 2010 (Revised February 2015)
- Teaching Note
eBay Partner Network (A), (B), (C), and (D)
By: Benjamin Edelman and Ian Larkin
Teaching Note for [910008], [910009], [910012], and [914016]. View Details
- September 2009 (Revised March 2015)
- Supplement
eBay Partner Network (C)
By: Benjamin Edelman and Ian Larkin
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin. "eBay Partner Network (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 910-012, September 2009. (Revised March 2015.)
- September 2009 (Revised March 2015)
- Supplement
eBay Partner Network (B)
By: Benjamin Edelman and Ian Larkin
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin. "eBay Partner Network (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 910-009, September 2009. (Revised March 2015.)
- January–February 2015
- Article
Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence
By: Benjamin Edelman and Ian Larkin
We examine how unfavorable social comparisons differentially spur employees of varying hierarchical levels to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either... View Details
Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin. "Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence." Organization Science 26, no. 1 (January–February 2015): 78–98.
- September 2009 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
eBay Partner Network (A)
By: Benjamin Edelman and Ian Larkin
eBay considers adjustments to the structure and rules of its affiliate marketing program, eBay Partner Network (ePN). In particular, eBay reevaluates affiliate compensation structure, the role of bonuses for especially productive affiliates, and the overall rationale... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Marketing Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Motivation and Incentives; Online Technology; Service Industry
Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin. "eBay Partner Network (A)." Harvard Business School Case 910-008, September 2009. (Revised March 2015.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
reaping the benefits of FDI (which relate to when FDI will generate growth) and (2) the mechanisms by which FDI creates positive externalities (which relate to how FDI generates growth). Technology and Innovation Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2012 (Revised July 2018)
- Supplement
V-Cola: Confidential Instructions for Mark Ketting Chief Marketing Officer, Trek Beverages
By: Ian Larkin and Hal Movius
Larkin, Ian, and Hal Movius. "V-Cola: Confidential Instructions for Mark Ketting Chief Marketing Officer, Trek Beverages." Harvard Business School Supplement 912-047, March 2012. (Revised July 2018.)
- April 2012 (Revised July 2018)
- Supplement
V-Cola: Confidential Instructions for Connie Sultant “New media” Consultant
By: Ian Larkin and Hal Movius
Larkin, Ian, and Hal Movius. "V-Cola: Confidential Instructions for Connie Sultant “New media” Consultant." Harvard Business School Supplement 912-046, April 2012. (Revised July 2018.)
- March 2012 (Revised October 2021)
- Supplement
V-Cola: Confidential Instructions for Cly Entman Client Services Director, Chikara Advertising
By: Ian Larkin and Hal Movius
Larkin, Ian, and Hal Movius. "V-Cola: Confidential Instructions for Cly Entman Client Services Director, Chikara Advertising." Harvard Business School Supplement 912-045, March 2012. (Revised October 2021.)
- 2001
- Chapter
Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry
By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn
U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While... View Details
Keywords: Public Sector; Science-Based Business; Research and Development; Sovereign Finance; Pharmaceutical Industry
Henderson, Rebecca, and Ian Cockburn. "Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 1, edited by Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 1–34. MIT Press, 2001.
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
goal of residency training. The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Publication:In The Rate and Direction of Inventive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
Electronic Monitoring Authors:Di Tella, Rafael, and Ernesto Schargrodsky Publication:Journal of Political Economy Abstract We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the re-arrest rates of two groups: individuals released... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest. China seemed without peer. Decline came fast. By... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
course. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813127-PDF-ENG First Solar: CFRA's Accounting Quality Concerns Srinivasan, Suraj, and Ian McKown CornellHarvard Business School Case 113-044 The case relates to accounting quality analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
companies has become available in the past 10 years. Myth Number 5: ESG adds value almost entirely by limiting risks. Reality: Along with lower risk and a lower cost of capital, companies with high ESG scores have also experienced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
years, this paper presents a significant revision of the model of creativity and innovation in organizations published in Research in Organizational Behavior in 1988. This update focuses primarily on the individual-level psychological processes implicated in creativity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
touched controversial issues including gender equality and the conflicting emotions experienced both by women who work and those who stay home to raise families. Other popular stories, listed below, looked at such diverse topics as the... View Details